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   From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   Peter Moylan wrote:   
   > On 22/10/24 09:24, LionelEdwards wrote:   
   >   
   >> Genesis 11 King James Version   
   >>   
   >> 11 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.   
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   > [...]   
   >   
   >> 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top   
   >> may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be   
   >> scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.   
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   > [...]   
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   >> 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all   
   >> the earth: and they left off to build the city.   
   >   
   > I'd never noticed this detail before: the builders of the tower knew   
   > what their punishment was going to be. How did they know? Had a previous   
   > "no high-rises" law been proclaimed, with scattering abroad as the   
   > punishment for breaking the law?   
   >   
      
   Probably not. But if they'd heard or read any of the early Old Testament   
   books, they'd have lived in constant fear of doing anything out of the norm.   
   The Greeks called it "hubris", their Olympian gods took vengeance; but   
   the Jewish Yahweh outdid even them in severity of punishment.   
      
   Ed   
      
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